Train communication system

Abstract

Provided is a network that is constituted in a train formation; communication relay devices; terminal devices; and a position-information distribution device. The communication relay devices rewrite position information from the position-information distribution device to vehicle information indicating positions of vehicles that are provided with the communication relay devices and transfer rewritten information. The terminal devices include an IP-address correspondence table in which IP addresses that are set so as not to overlap with each other for respective types of the terminal devices and are to be used while corresponding to the vehicle information and connection destination information of the terminal devices correspond to each other. IP addresses to be allocated to the terminal devices are decided on the basis of the correspondence table and the vehicle information from the communication relay devices.

The invention claimed is: 
     
       1. A train communication system comprising:
 a network that is constituted in a train formation including one or more vehicles; 
 a communication relay device that is provided in each of the vehicles and is connected to the network; 
 one or more terminal devices that are provided in the vehicles and are connected to the communication relay device in a same vehicle and to the network; and 
 a position-information distribution device that is connected to the communication relay device and distributes position information indicating positions of the vehicles in the train formation, wherein 
 the communication relay device includes
 a vehicle-information storage unit that stores therein vehicle information indicating positions of the vehicles that are provided with the communication relay device in the train formation, and 
 a position-information rewriting unit that, when having received a position information packet from the position-information distribution device,
 extracts position information set in the position information packet, 
 generates a rewritten position information packet in which a value of extracted position information is rewritten to a value of vehicle information recorded in the vehicle-information storage unit, and 
 transfers the rewritten position information packet, and 
 
 
 the terminal devices
 include a correspondence table in which
 IP addresses that are set so as not to overlap with each other for respective types of the terminal devices and are set to correspond to the vehicle information, 
 a value of a physical port of a communication relay device to which a terminal device is connected, and 
 the position information correspond to each other, and 
 
 decide IP addresses to be allocated to the terminal devices on the basis of the vehicle information from the communication relay devices and the correspondence table. 
 
 
     
     
       2. The train communication system according to  claim 1 , wherein
 a plurality of the communication relay devices constitute a ring network, and 
 two of the communication relay devices constituting the ring network are connected to the position-information distribution device, respectively. 
 
     
     
       3. The train communication system according to  claim 1 , wherein
 the communication relay device provided in one vehicle transmits the position information packet, which is rewritten to a value of vehicle information recorded in the vehicle-information storage unit, to the communication relay device that is provided in another vehicle different from the one vehicle, and 
 the communication relay device provided in the another vehicle, having received the position information packet transmitted from the communication relay device provided in the one vehicle,
 extracts position information set in a received position information packet, 
 rewrites a value of the extracted position information to a value of vehicle information recorded in the vehicle-information storage unit, and 
 transfers a rewritten position information packet. 
 
 
     
     
       4. A train communication system comprising:
 a network that is constituted in a train formation including one or more vehicles; 
 a communication relay device that is provided in each of the vehicles and is connected to the network; 
 one or more terminal devices that are provided in the vehicles and are connected to the communication relay device in a same vehicle and to the network; 
 a position-information distribution device that is connected to the communication relay device and distributes position information indicating positions of the vehicles in the train formation; and 
 an IP-address distribution device that is connected to the communication relay device and distributes an IP address, wherein 
 the communication relay device includes
 a vehicle-information storage unit that stores therein vehicle information indicating positions of the vehicles that are provided with the communication relay device in the train formation, and 
 a position-information rewriting unit that, when having received a position information packet from the position-information distribution device,
 extracts position information set in the position information packet, 
 generates a rewritten position information packet in which a value of extracted position information is rewritten to a value of vehicle information recorded in the vehicle-information storage unit, and 
 transfers the rewritten position information packet, and 
 
 
 the terminal devices, when having received the position information from the communication relay devices, set the position information and connection destination information of the terminal devices into an IP-address request signal, and
 the IP-address distribution device, including a correspondence table in which
 IP addresses that are set so as not to overlap with each other for respective types of the terminal devices and that are to be used while corresponding to the vehicle information, 
 the position information, and 
 a value of a physical port of a communication relay device, to which a terminal device is connected, correspond to each other, 
 
 decides IP addresses to be allocated to the terminal devices on the basis of the IP-address request signal from the terminal devices and the correspondence table, and 
 distributes decided IP addresses to the terminal devices that have requested them. 
 
 
     
     
       5. The train communication system according to  claim 4 , wherein
 the communication relay device provided in one vehicle transmits the position information packet, which is rewritten to a value of vehicle information recorded in the vehicle-information storage unit, to the communication relay device that is provided in another vehicle different from the one vehicle, and 
 the communication relay device provided in the another vehicle, having received the position information packet transmitted from the communication relay device provided in the one vehicle,
 extracts position information set in a received position information packet, 
 rewrites a value of the extracted position information to a value of vehicle information recorded in the vehicle-information storage unit, and 
 transfers a rewritten position information packet. 
 
 
     
     
       6. A train communication system comprising:
 a network that is constituted in a train formation including one or more vehicles; 
 a communication relay device that is provided in each of the vehicles and is connected to the network; 
 one or more terminal devices that are provided in the vehicles and are connected to the communication relay device in a same vehicle and to the network; and 
 an IP-address distribution device that is connected to the communication relay device and distributes an IP address, wherein 
 the terminal devices set connection destination information of the terminal devices into an IP-address request signal, 
 the IP-address distribution device, including a correspondence table in which IP addresses that are set so as not to overlap with each other for respective types of the terminal devices and a value of a physical port of a communication-relay device to which the terminal is connected correspond to each other,
 decides IP addresses to be allocated to the terminal devices on the basis of an IP-address request signal from the terminal devices and the correspondence table, and 
 transmits decided IP addresses to the communication relay device, and 
 
 the communication relay device
 rewrites position-information included in the IP-address from the IP-address distribution device to vehicle information indicating positions of the vehicles in which the communication relay device is provided in the train formation, and 
 distributes the rewritten IP address to the terminal devices that have requested it.